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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud",
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Maalim Mahamud",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me also add my voice to the colleagues that have spoken before me. It could be said that today is a very sad day for this country. We have earlier said that DORA has been assented to and it will open the funding to the counties. Unfortunately, an illegality has been committed. It is very frustrating to sit in a committee for long and work hard and see something sneaked in. He mentioned that we might have disused the effective date in the Committee. The fact remains that this House passed a Bill with an effective date because it talks about publication on gazettement. That is the Senate version. The National Assembly Bill set the date at 1st July, 2019. So, there was no mediated version of the Bill that the President assented to. It is unfortunate that the Message from the President has come to us now and it was signed this morning. An illegality has been committed. Knowing that that has happened, the County Allocation of Revenue Act (CARA) will be enacted because nothing will stop us. The National Assembly and the Executive take the laws of this country for granted. The Executive and the National Assembly are working in cahoots to frustrate the spirit of our Constitution and the Senate, but we will not accept that. We have fought and reached where we are at today and we will continue fighting. We have not lost the war. The battle on the Bill has been lost because that Bill should have been lost or taken back to mediation. Sometimes you have to commit an illegality by doing something that affects everybody. Our counties and the people are suffering. The first quarter of the year has ended but no funds have gone to the counties. The Senate has no alternative but to work with CARA. However, going forward, we must be careful with the rogue House, which is the National Assembly, that is behaving like a rogue elephant that wants to kick the whole country left and right but we will not accept that. I have said this and it is on record. When the Bill was moved last week, I deliberately quoted Clause 1, knowing the mischief that came from our colleagues from the other House. We have Clause 1 but it will not stop us from passing the County Allocation of Revenue Bill. It will not stop us from making any change in the law to make the National Treasury and the Executive to fulfill their obligations to the counties. I want to go on record by saying that what has happened today, in terms of assenting to the Bill, is actually a flagrant violation of the Constitution but that is something for another day. For now, we will move on with the CARA. I thank you."
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